A king wants to go outside. He comes to the end of the fort. There are two doors there, and two buttons. These buttons do opposite things - if you push button 1, the king will come out of door 2 and vice versa. If you press both at once, you don't know through which door the king will come out (or whether he will be divided into two pieces).

What is the king's name?

This was asked by a stranger during a train ride. Though I couldn't ask him the answer. So I won't be able to provide hints.

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If you press your left nostril while blowing your nose, the mucus will go out from the right nostril, and vice versa. However, if you press both your nostrils, well... we don't really know what will happen, do we? You can pop your ears or the "King" will come out forcibly from the left or right nostril, or both as several "pieces".

Double-slit experiment, made by Thomas Young
pushing the button open opposite door, so he come from the other door
pushing both open both doors, and we don't know if it will come from one random door, or both

as for the king name

maybe as this experiment show how light behave, I suppose it's Louis XIV, A.K.A. the Sun King

$\begingroup$Thanks for the answer, but that person haven't read the science since 5th grade, I guess this won't be the answer. This Schrodinger equation comes later.$\endgroup$
– A J 9Apr 18 '18 at 10:44

Really stretching it here, but maybe some part of this might be partially on track and help someone else. Are you

Playing a computerised version of checkers, chess, or Chinese chess?
In which the buttons are the left and right click buttons on the mouse, which control the game?
The fort is some defensive layout you have created in normal chess, or the 3x3 square the King is constrained to in Chinese Chess, or the entire game board?
If you press both buttons, the game will simply determine which was pressed 0.001s faster and do that.
Splitting the king into two pieces kind of works for checkers, where kings (pieces that have reached the end) are denoted by stacking two regular pieces.